Honoring the behind-the-scenes folks that shape our viewing experience, the 66th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards were held on Saturday night (January 25).
The big winner this year was Alfonso Cuarón, whose film "Gravity" won the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film prize.
After accepting the honor from presenter Ben Affleck, he spoke about the movie, saying, "We saw all these photographs of earth from space, and it’s absolutely beautiful; hues of greens and blues. Everything seems so organic. Those silly lines and boundaries we put on political maps, you can’t see that from space. It’s a bizarre experiment of nature, that is the human experience. And it’s what we as directors try to sort out as filmmakers."
Notable winners include Vince Gilligan for "Breaking Bad," Beth McCarthy-Miller for "30 Rock," and Steven Soderbergh for "Behind the Candelabra," who also nabbed the Robert B. Aldrich Service Award.
The big winner this year was Alfonso Cuarón, whose film "Gravity" won the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film prize.
After accepting the honor from presenter Ben Affleck, he spoke about the movie, saying, "We saw all these photographs of earth from space, and it’s absolutely beautiful; hues of greens and blues. Everything seems so organic. Those silly lines and boundaries we put on political maps, you can’t see that from space. It’s a bizarre experiment of nature, that is the human experience. And it’s what we as directors try to sort out as filmmakers."
Notable winners include Vince Gilligan for "Breaking Bad," Beth McCarthy-Miller for "30 Rock," and Steven Soderbergh for "Behind the Candelabra," who also nabbed the Robert B. Aldrich Service Award.
- 1/26/2014
- GossipCenter
Tonight, the Directors Guild of America unveiled their choices for outstanding directorial achievement in 2013, and as expected, Alfonso Cuarón took home their top prize for his brilliant work on Gravity, making him the most likely winner of the Best Director Oscar at this year’s Academy Awards.
The question now becomes: Will this be enough to tip Best Picture in Gravity‘s favor? After all, how could you give a film so many Oscars (including Best Director and Best Film Editing) and Not give it Best Picture? Granted, it’s happened before, but rarely to a film receiving this many awards. If the Academy should pass the film over for the top honor, it would become the most honored film not to win the big prize since Cabaret (1972), which won eight Oscars (including Best Director and Best Film Editing) before losing Best Picture to The Godfather.
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The question now becomes: Will this be enough to tip Best Picture in Gravity‘s favor? After all, how could you give a film so many Oscars (including Best Director and Best Film Editing) and Not give it Best Picture? Granted, it’s happened before, but rarely to a film receiving this many awards. If the Academy should pass the film over for the top honor, it would become the most honored film not to win the big prize since Cabaret (1972), which won eight Oscars (including Best Director and Best Film Editing) before losing Best Picture to The Godfather.
You also have to...
- 1/26/2014
- by Jeff Beck
- We Got This Covered
Updated: Gravity does not seem to be falling on the awards circuit. Alfonso Cuarón walked away with the top honor at the Directors Guild of America Awards Saturday night in Los Angeles, beating out Martin Scorsese, David O. Russell, Paul Greengrass, and Steve McQueen.
“This is truly an honor and I am humbled by it,” Cuarón said to the audience of his peers after last year’s winner Ben Affleck presented him with the award. But Gravity was not the work of just one mind, and no one knows that more keenly than Cuarón. “Directing is about the work of your collaborators,...
“This is truly an honor and I am humbled by it,” Cuarón said to the audience of his peers after last year’s winner Ben Affleck presented him with the award. But Gravity was not the work of just one mind, and no one knows that more keenly than Cuarón. “Directing is about the work of your collaborators,...
- 1/26/2014
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
Now that Breaking Bad is over, Bryan Cranston can pursue his side career full-time. The actor picked up two Directors Guild television nominations on Thursday: one for directing an episode of Bb, and one for Modern Family.
Winners will be announced at the DGA Awards dinner on Feb. 25. Check out all the film nominees here, and the full list of TV nominees below:
Movies For Television And Mini-series
Stephen Frears, Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight
David Mamet. Phil Spector
Beth McCarthy-miller and Rob Ashford, The Sound of Music Live!
Nelson McCormick, Killing Kennedy
Steven Soderbergh, Behind the Candelabra
Dramatic Series
Bryan Cranston,...
Winners will be announced at the DGA Awards dinner on Feb. 25. Check out all the film nominees here, and the full list of TV nominees below:
Movies For Television And Mini-series
Stephen Frears, Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight
David Mamet. Phil Spector
Beth McCarthy-miller and Rob Ashford, The Sound of Music Live!
Nelson McCormick, Killing Kennedy
Steven Soderbergh, Behind the Candelabra
Dramatic Series
Bryan Cranston,...
- 1/9/2014
- by EW staff
- EW - Inside TV
Plus, new decorating ideas for snicks' bedroom, Where The Frock Are They? and is a 90210 alum enough of a hunk for a Vampire King?
Buried in this list of scoops and spoilers is the news that True Blood is about to get into the fairy business, which is great for us, because in the books fairies are breathtakingly beautiful fraternal twins, Claudine and Claude, and Claude is gay.
And the Spurf™ follows up with the news that Lara Pulver has been cast as Claudine. Lara is seen most recently in Robin Hood opposite Russell Crowe. I’m not sure she’s at all what I had in mind when I read the books. Fantasy casting for her gay twin stripper brother in the comments!
Glee is bringing back Barbra – Ryan Murphy says that Idina Menzel is about to sing “Funny Girl” in an upcoming episode as a perfect complement to...
Buried in this list of scoops and spoilers is the news that True Blood is about to get into the fairy business, which is great for us, because in the books fairies are breathtakingly beautiful fraternal twins, Claudine and Claude, and Claude is gay.
And the Spurf™ follows up with the news that Lara Pulver has been cast as Claudine. Lara is seen most recently in Robin Hood opposite Russell Crowe. I’m not sure she’s at all what I had in mind when I read the books. Fantasy casting for her gay twin stripper brother in the comments!
Glee is bringing back Barbra – Ryan Murphy says that Idina Menzel is about to sing “Funny Girl” in an upcoming episode as a perfect complement to...
- 5/11/2010
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
Indie Roundup reviews the past week of news from the independent film community and provides a peek at what's coming soon.
Deals. Screen Media Films picked up U.S. rights to Women in Trouble and plans a release on November 13. The film, directed by Sebastian Gutierrez, is "a fun addition to the current trend of revisiting and reworking exploitation-film themes in a lighthearted way," wrote our own Jette Kernion earlier this year. "There's a certain pleasure in seeing a movie where the men are relegated to the Supportive Spouse and Lust Interest roles, after I've seen so many films where those are the only roles for women."
Dave Boyle's White on Rice, described as a heartwarming comedy, has been acquired by Variance Films and Tiger Industry Films; a theatrical release is scheduled to begin in Los Angeles on September 11 before expanding throughout the fall. Matt Bradshaw pointed the way to the quietly funny trailer.
Deals. Screen Media Films picked up U.S. rights to Women in Trouble and plans a release on November 13. The film, directed by Sebastian Gutierrez, is "a fun addition to the current trend of revisiting and reworking exploitation-film themes in a lighthearted way," wrote our own Jette Kernion earlier this year. "There's a certain pleasure in seeing a movie where the men are relegated to the Supportive Spouse and Lust Interest roles, after I've seen so many films where those are the only roles for women."
Dave Boyle's White on Rice, described as a heartwarming comedy, has been acquired by Variance Films and Tiger Industry Films; a theatrical release is scheduled to begin in Los Angeles on September 11 before expanding throughout the fall. Matt Bradshaw pointed the way to the quietly funny trailer.
- 7/29/2009
- by Peter Martin
- Cinematical
Premiering tomorrow at SXSW is this years-in-the-making documentary called For The Love of Movies: A History of American Film Criticism, narrated by Patricia Clarkson and directed by Gerald Peary and Amy Geller. As the current film critic struggles to find a job, an audience and a purpose, this doc -- according to Jeff Wells -- is a "chronicle of magnificent obsessions and magnificent dreams, and a rise-and-fall story covering scores of critics, the entirety of the Hollywood film culture from the '20s to the present, and hundreds if not thousands of movies." Watch the trailer below and keep an eye on the third dude who pops up and let us know if he looks (and sounds) just the wee bit familiar.
Next up is a film I whole-heartedly recommend. A funky, oddly hilarious experimental flick that simultaneously mocks and sympathizes with the Me Generation, My Suicide follows a technology-obsessed...
Next up is a film I whole-heartedly recommend. A funky, oddly hilarious experimental flick that simultaneously mocks and sympathizes with the Me Generation, My Suicide follows a technology-obsessed...
- 3/15/2009
- by Erik Davis
- Cinematical
by indieWIRE (January 6, 2008) "The Lost Coast," Gabriel Fleming's second feature as a director, premiered at SXSW last year and has since won the best feature prize at NewFest. The film follows high school friends who reunite for Halloween in San Francisco and confront experiences of the past that no one has yet dared to explore. indieWIRE talked to Fleming about the film, which is now available on Amazon VOD.
- 1/6/2009
- by peter
- indieWIRE - People
(We're reposting our SXSW review of The Lost Coast to coincide with the film's release via Amazon VOD)
By: Eric D. Snider
As Jasper, the narrator and protagonist of The Lost Coast, begins to describe the events of Halloween night, he says, "We found a dead body -- but more on that later." You know it's an eventful night when discovering a corpse isn't even the lead story.
In this moody, occasionally dreamlike drama, it's not what happens to Jasper and his friends that's important, so much as what happens within Jasper's soul. Yes, most of the drama here is internal, and while writer/director Gabriel Fleming falls prey to some of the missteps typical of new filmmakers, he gets a lot right, too, with a lot of emotional insight.
The film is constructed around an e-mail that twentysomething Jasper (Ian Scott McGregor) is writing to his fiancee overseas, in...
By: Eric D. Snider
As Jasper, the narrator and protagonist of The Lost Coast, begins to describe the events of Halloween night, he says, "We found a dead body -- but more on that later." You know it's an eventful night when discovering a corpse isn't even the lead story.
In this moody, occasionally dreamlike drama, it's not what happens to Jasper and his friends that's important, so much as what happens within Jasper's soul. Yes, most of the drama here is internal, and while writer/director Gabriel Fleming falls prey to some of the missteps typical of new filmmakers, he gets a lot right, too, with a lot of emotional insight.
The film is constructed around an e-mail that twentysomething Jasper (Ian Scott McGregor) is writing to his fiancee overseas, in...
- 12/31/2008
- by Cinematical staff
- Cinematical
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